Robber
/ˈɹɒb.ə(ɹ)/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who robs.
- 2 a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence wordnet
- 3 An animal who robs.
"I remember as a boy in my native land the bad name the common magpie (Pica caudata) had as a destroyer of chickens, and a robber of nests."
Example
More examples"The robber attacked her on a back street."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English robbour, robbere, either directly taken from or from a calque of Old French robeor. Equivalent to rob + -er. Compare reaver (“robber, plunderer”), a native English word derived from Proto-Germanic *raubārijaz that is ultimately of more or less the same composition as robber. And compare rover (“a pirate”), another word of the same composition.